BOSTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren hopes to fend off a challenge from Republican John Deaton on Tuesday as she seeks a third term representing Massachusetts.

Deatonan attorney who moved to the state from Rhode Island earlier this year, sought to portray the former Harvard Law School professor as out of touch with ordinary Bay State residents.

Warren presented herself as a defender of a struggling middle class and a critic of regulations that benefit the wealthy. Warren has remained popular in the state despite coming in third in Massachusetts in her 2020 bid for president.

Warren first burst onto the national scene during the 2008 financial crisis with calls for stronger safeguards for consumers, resulting in the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He has become one of his party’s most prominent liberal voices.

“I first ran for the Senate because I saw how the system is rigged for the rich and the powerful and against everyone else, and I won because Massachusetts voters know it too,” Warren said in a recent campaign ad.

In 2012, Warren defeated Republican Scott Brown, who was elected after the death of veteran Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy to serve the last two years of his term. Six years later, he easily defeated Republican rival Geoff Diehl.

During the campaign, Deaton compared himself to popular former moderate Republican Massachusetts governors such as Bill Weld and Charlie Baker, and said he did not support former President Donald Trump’s bid for a second term.

Although the candidates have taken similar stances on some issues, they have attempted to clearly differentiate themselves from one another.

Both expressed sympathy for immigrants entering the country but blamed each other for not doing enough to address the country’s border crisis during a debate on WBZ-TV.

Warren said the country needs comprehensive immigration reform and said Republicans, led by Trump, have blocked progress.

“The Republican playbook is one that Donald Trump has perfected,” he said.

Deaton said Warren should have confronted the issue more directly while in office, noting that she voted against a bipartisan border bill that failed.

“It would have brought relief, but it wasn’t perfect,” Deaton said.

Warren has said the bill was already doomed to fail and voted against it to show she wanted changes.

Both also said they support abortion rights. Deaton criticized Warren and other Democrats for not immediately pushing to overturn Roe v. Wade into law after the Supreme Court overturned the previous ruling guaranteeing the right to abortion.

“They did not want to resolve the issue of abortion. They wanted it divisive. “They wanted it as an election issue,” Deaton said.

Warren said it was a question of trust. He said Deaton had said he would have voted for Neil Gorsuch, one of the justices who overturned Roe.

Warren’s popularity did not translate when she ran for the White House in 2020. After a relatively strong start, Warren’s presidential hopes faded in part due to harsh criticism from Trump, who mocked her for her claims of native american heritage.

She ultimately finished third in Massachusetts, behind Joe Biden and Vermont independent U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.